Below is a list of activities that I perform daily. I would appreciate if someone could tell me which of these 4 apply for each activity: (1) wash Netilat Yadayim, (2) Asher Yatzar, (3) avoid speaking ...

Assuming one has the minhag not to speak between netilas yadayim and hamotzi...What should one do if one accidentally speaks during this time?
Should one wash again? With or without a blessing?
--Or ...

These may not be the original sources for either shiTTah, but two early examples of either of them can be found in the Rambam, Mishneh Thorah - Hilkhoth Berakhoth 6:2 (mevorekh batteHiloh), and in the ...

After using the bathroom some folks let the water run (without opening and closing the faucet) and pass each hand under the faucet 3 times alternating between the right and left hands. Since there's ...

Before Birkas Kohanim, the Levi'im wash the Kohanim's hands. In many communities, this occurs during the chazzan's repitition of Shemoneh Esrei, and in a room outside the main shul.
Normally, there ...

Someone told me that technically one needs to pour water on each hand only once since we use large quantities of water. Is there a halachic source for this?
I heard that the requirement to pour twice ...

If one talked after washing does he have wash again and is it a hefseik?
Where in halachah is it stated that one should preferably not talk after washing?
I read that the only time you need to wash ...

Is it important to wash one's hands before eating or is also the preparation of the meal important as well? Should one wash before handling bread but not make a brachah or is washing only relevant to ...

The shulchan aruch lists a bunch of things that require you to do netilat yadyim (siman 23, saif 18):
"The instances when one must do N’tilas Yadayim are the following: One who gets up from his bed, ...

We have a small synagogue: the room where we pray gets converted into the dining area. The back wall of the room has a washing station already. There is some money to update the synagogue, and some ...

In the Siddur of Rav Saadia Gaon on page 136, where he discusses the Pesach Seder, he says that when we do Orchatz we are supposed to make a bracha, and after Karpas to say Borei Nephashot. However, ...

At the Pesach Seder the Urchatz is the washing of hands without a bracha.
At the Pesach seder our table is like the altar, so since the Kohanim should wash their hands and feet in order to serve or ...

I've heard ( do not have a source ) that if you don't wash right after waking up, the Ruach Ra'ah transfers itself to all objects you touch. Does this object become tumei? How is it removed from the ...

I have been in situations where most everyone follows the common minhag of washing after kiddush before hamotzi, whereas, unless it is minhag avot for my host, I wash beforehand. '
This has prompted ...

I was just wondering about the halachos of waking up to eat before a fast day.
If one had intention, is it best to wake up, wash negal vasser, get dressed, go to bathroom say Al Netilas Yadaim, Asher ...

I was just wondering about the halacha of waking up in the morning and putting on tallit katan. When I wake up I wash my hands (negal vasser) then get dressed and put on my tallit katan with a bracha ...

Inspired by this question but I believe different because its not related to drinking.
Can you use carbonated, and even flavored clear water (seltzer) to do things that require water such as washing ...

Some Posekim write (Yalkut Yosef Hilchot Mayim Aharonim and Mishna Berura 181, 4 and IIRC the Magen Avraham) that Mayim Aharonim has Ruah Ra'a and that once someone used the water for Mayim Aharonim ...

I am under the impression that one is required to wash one's hands with a utensil (typically, the same type of cup used to wash before bread) after using the bathroom.
Firstly, what is the source of ...

Right in the beginning of Shulchan Aruch we see this idea of "Ruach Rah". In regards to washing ones hands and all that comes before that -- not walking more than 4 amos without washing one's hands, ...

I heard about a minhag the other day (for the first time) and was wondering if there is any makor for it. I was told that people ran out to "catch" the water that was used to wash the Kohanim's hands ...